Kahraman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hero
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2023
/kahɾaman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kahraman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 685(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.8K
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 685 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)hero
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kahraman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #67 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 685 | — | Kahraman | 145 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Kahraman | 3 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Kahraman | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 116 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 11 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #129 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Kahraman | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 425 | 1 in 20K | 425 | Kahraman | 21 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kahraman is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Yiğit, cesur. 2. Bir olayın, serüvenin başlıca kişisi. 3. Sessiz, yumuşak kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- İsmail Kahramanb. 1940TRTurkish statesperson (born 1940)
- Alim Kahramanb. 1956TRTurkish writer (born 1956)
- Can Kahramanb. 1966TRTurkish actor (born 1966)
- Ilyas Kahramanb. 1976TRTurkish association football player (born 1976)
- Çiçek Kahramanb. 1977TRTurkish film editor (born 1977)
- Volkan Kahramanb. 1979ATTurkish-Austrian association football player (1979–2023)
- Erol Kahramanb. 1983CATurkish ice hockey player (born 1983)
- Emre Kahramanb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Altay Kahramanb. 1989CHTurkish-Swiss association football player (born 1989)
- Buçe Buse Kahramanb. 1996TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 11 | #1,753 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2020 | 2 | #1,485 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2018 | 2 | #1,487 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2017 | 2 | #1,500 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2023 | 1 | #2,573 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2015 | 1 | #2,513 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2011 | 1 | #2,345 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kahraman mean, and where does it come from?
- hero Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kahraman?
- A machine transcription gives /kahɾaman/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kahraman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 thousand people named Kahraman in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kahraman.
- How common is the name Kahraman?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 425 people named Kahraman in 2024, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Kahraman compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kahraman is the 67th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kahramanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kahraman” — the 67th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.